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Patented Mar. 28, |899` No. 622,I86.

c. v.1. FEDER. RAILWAY ADVERTISING APPARATUS.

(Application filed Dec. 28, 1898.)

INVENTOR 1 1 i I e v l I l l I i u. FEAFQ (No Modal.)

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CHARLES J. FEDER, OE PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO ROSA FEDER, OF SAME PLACE.

RAILWAY ADVERTISING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 622,186, dated March 28, 1899.

Application iled December 28, 1898. Serial No. 700,484. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, vCHARLES J. FEDER, a citizen of the United States, residin'g in Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway Advertising Apparatus; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to rotating signs for vehicles; and it has reference particularly to a device of this nature which is automatically actuated from the running-gear of the vehicles.

The object of the invention is to provide an automaticallyrotating sign which shall be simple and durable in construction and effective in operation and the actuating parts of which may be rendered adjustable, so that in the intermittent movements of the sign more or less of the same may be exposed, as desired.

The invention consists in the improved automatically-actuated rotating sign, in the means for automatically and intermittently rotating said sign, and in the combination and arrangement of the various parts of the apparatus, including said sign and its actuating means, substantially as will be hereinafter fully described, and tinally embodied in the clauses of the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, FigureY 1 is a View in side elevation of a car provided with my improved rotating sign and the operating mechanism therefor, parts of said car being broken away to show portions of the apparatus involved in my invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged view, partially in section and'partially in elevation, of said apparatus. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail View showing in elevation the construction of a portion of the ac' journaled with their axes vertically disposed in` boxes or cases d d', suitably supported at each end of the car. Upon the flexible band is adapted to be placed the advertising matter, and said band is prevented from sagging by means of an elongated plate @,suitably secured at each end to the boxes or cases c c and provided along its side edges with overlapping flaps f, serving to guide the band b. This plate is secured to thel boxes at points opposite the apertures g in said' boxes, through which the band extends. I have only shown one of said iianged platesthat is to say, the one for the exposed portion of the sign; but it is obvious that both the sections of the band that are disposed between the boxes may be supported in this manner.

In the case or box d is sustained in a manner hereinafter particularly described a pair of electromagnets z, which are connected by wires 7i, h' with a pair of brushes 7111', secured to and projecting downwardly from the floor of the car. One of the axles j of -the car is provided with two automatically-opposed insulating-plates lo, and it is inclosed between and clasped by the brushes 1I 'in such manner that the electrical connection across or through the axle will be intermittently broken as the insulations and the exposed portions of the axle successively come into Contact with said brushes. Any source of electrical energy may be included in the circuit of which the wires, the axle, and the electromagnets together form a part.

m is an armature-lever fulcrum'ed upon the upper end of an arbor m', journaled in one of the vwalls of the case d and carrying a ratchet-wheel a and a pinion n', each rigidly connected thereto'. The armature-lever is provided with a spring-actuated pawl n2, which is adapted to engage the ratchet-wheel and cause the same to rotate when the armature-lever is vibra-ted.

o designates a pinion secured upon 011e end of the roller c and having its teeth in engagement with the smaller one of two pinions o' o?, that are. disposed between said pin-ion o and the pinion n', the larger one of these intermediate pinions being in engagement with said pinion n.

The armature-lever is adapted to be actu- IOO ated when the circuit is closed by the electromagncts, and in order to vary its throw I have provided means for adjusting said magnets relatively to the armature-lever. The means referred to consists of a frame p, which carries said magnets and which is penetrated by and adapted to slide upon a pair of pins p', projecting from a wall of the case, and an arm q, projecting from said frame in the direction of the opposite wall of the case, which it penetrates, its free end being screwthreaded and carrying an adjusting-nut or thnmb-screwq, which takes against said last* mentioned wall.

The armature o for the elcctromagnets is pivotally secured upon the armature-lever in operative disposition relatively to said magnets by means of a bolt o", which extends through a slot r2 in said armature-lever, thus rendering the armature adjustable longitudinally as well as pivotally upon the armaturelever.

A spiral springu connects the armature-lever and the adjacent wall of the case, so as to retract the former whenever it is released by the electromagnets.

The operation of the device will be apparent without description.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The combination, with a car or other similar vehicle, of an advertising apparatus carried by said car and consisting of a revoluble sign, an adjustablymounted electro magnet or magnets, an electric circuit including said magnets, and a revolving member of the running-gear of said car, said member constituting a circuit making and breaking device, an armature-lever, an armature adjustably mounted on said armature-lever and controlled bysaid magnets and operative connecting means between said armature-lever and the sign, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with a car or other similar vehicle, of an advertising apparatus carried by said car and consisting of a revo luble sign, an adjustablymounted electro magnet or magnets, an electric circuit including said magnets, brushes also included in said circuit and bearing upon a revolving member of the running-gear of said car, said member constituting a circuit making and breaking device between said brushes, an armature-lever an armaturecarried by, and adjustable pivotally and longitudinally on, said armature-lever and controlled by said magnets and operative connecting means between said armature-lever and the sign, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with a car or other similar vehicle, of an advertising apparatus carried by said car and consisting of a case, a pair of pins mounted therein, a frame adjustably mounted on said pins, a revolublc sign, an electro magnet or magnets carried by said frame, an electric circuit including said magnet or magnets, brushes also included in said circuit and bearing upon a revolving member of the'running-gear of said car, said member constituting a circuit making and breaking,r device between said brushes, a suitably-journaled arbor, a ratchet-wheel carried by and revoluble with said arbor, an armature-lever, an armature carried by, and adjustable pivotally and longitudinally on, said armature-lever and controlled by said magnets and fulcrumed on said arbor, a springactua-ted pawl engaging said ratchet-wheel and carried bysaid armature-lever and operative connecting means between said ratchetwheel and the sign, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 25th day of November, lSOS.

CIIAS. J. FEDER.

iVitn'csses:

JOHN XV. STEWARD, ALFRED GARTNER. 

